The start of a new era
 

So I'm getting a bit excited (and alot nervous) because after 5.7 years I finally quit my job at Pizza Butt as a delivery driver.
This is a special time for my hypermiling because I will not be driving 400 city miles a week anymore :D:D
My new job at BMW is a 15-20 mile drive mostly highway.

So I gotta get back into hypermiling and focus on highway-best mods

Goal for the rest of the year is to beat my Year 1 MPG before this year ends and hopefully averaging out to 35mpg this year

Good luck in your endeavors.

Congrats on the new beginning!

I'm quite sure you'll be able to best that year 1 rating. Keep us updated!

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Certainly not trying to derail your thread but do you mind giving us a quick take on your experience with this kind of job and with tipping or lack thereof at times? After 5 years of this, Im sure you saw all walks of life and have some unique insight. This is one job I secretly always wanted to do but for no particular reason, never even applied.

Yeah we were in a really good area to see "All walks of life" we went from Section 8 housing all the way up to million+ dollar houses.
By your question I'm not sure if you wanted to me to explain some of the different stuff I saw or just as far as tips go.
But here is how tips went (believe it or not):

The very rich tip $2-3
Mid to Higher class would tip $3-4
the trailer parks would tip $3-6
section 8 would never tip
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As far as race goes:
It seemed like Hispanic and Indian people sent out memos on how to tip drivers because:
ALL Hispanics tipped $3, every single time--You could place bets on it
ALL Indians tipped $1 and whatever change was left over from the food, so $1-$1.99
And I got really tired of people saying delivery drivers were being racist when they say black people dont tip so here is the FACTS about white vs black tips, this is with over 100 person sample size I took.
White people averaged $3.86
Black people averaged $1.89 ***BUT!!*** It turned out to be almost FIVE times more likely to get $0 off of a black person, which means that, in turn, we got some good $7, $8 tips from them too to make that average.
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And if anyone is wondering, here is how your driver sees tips (atleast all the drivers at my store)
$0-0.99: We label your phone number and address as NFT and next time you order food, your pizza is last priority to a driver (AKA: Its gonna be late)
$1-1.99: You're getting called names when the driver gets back in his car
$2: Was labeled to most drivers as bare minimum
$3: Is a tip no one complained about unless you were 4+ miles away from store
$4-5: Were good tips and your driver is happy
$6-7: Really happy, may brag when we get back
$8-9: We are going to brag
$10+ we had to get a manager to authorize the tip so we would always come in and announce it as loud as possible to rub it in other drivers face.... You probably shouldnt tip more than this if you dont want a call to your house making sure a driver didnt forge your signature.
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When you think of tips, realize that most drivers only make about $20-$40 a night on tips if your a "Rush" driver.
A Closing driver usually makes $55-75
And the most I ever made in one night was something like $130
A Closing driver (which I was) will usually break the $100 mark maybe once every 2 or 3 months
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And the last thing I will add to this is that, all drivers do is talk about deliveries they took all day, we all remember what people tip and remember you buy name (or usually address). We all compare tips to the same address. So when a driver sees a ticket, for example:
166 N. Academy st. apartment: 302
We will all be turn to the guy taking it and either tell him
"Oh yeah, these people are cool, they tip $4 every time" or
"Oh man, your screwed, these people stiff everytime"
Which amounts to either you getting your pizza fast or that driver deciding that its YOUR delivery they can finally stop at the gas station/fast food and get gas/redbull/food first :p

Spoiled. Early '80s delivering, most of the time zero tips. Not the driver's or the restaurant's fault either. College town a factor? Townies just as bad.

How does insurance work? I read an article about Uber a d how most major insurance companies won't cover a claim that occurs when "on the clock" does pizza chain cover insurance for deliveries only? I'm sure they will fire your butt for an accident but will they cover you if a big rig rear ends you at a stop light?

I manage an auto parts store and I have always said we should share employee discounts with delivery drivers, we sure as **** eat enough pizzas and you guys sure do buy enough parts (well some do others just run a new corolla till it dies)

Every job does that. Institutional memory FTW, and we have computers, card files and a huge vested interest in treating people right- whichever way they decide "right" is.

Double baco cheeseburger. It's for a cop.
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Oh yeah, we had a O'reilly's auto parts next door and I know I poured alot of money into that place, I've seen other drivers open their glove boxes and have little yellow receipts fall all over the place like a waterfall.

And as far as insurance goes, none of the drivers were dumb enough to tell their insurance they were drivers, we just tell them we drove the normal 10-12,000 miles a year and went on with life. We have had some wrecks but the driver always just tells the whole story minus the "I was on a delivery" part.

I also forgot to say, On a daily basis I would get people say "well the delivery fee was $2.50, so here is $2 more and me and you should be even right?" --- Here is the TRUTH about that, because I know some drivers would just tell them they got $0 of it... Out of the $2.50, We got $1.00 for the gas to go to your house and the store steals all the rest. Thats why drivers say "I dont get any of it" Because it goes into the tank (and any extra goes to oil/tires/maintenance)
So if it costs 15cents to get to your house and back we made 85cents off of it for our next oil change (Which is WAAAAY too often) If it costs 1.20 to get to your place and back, then we loose money.
And when gas goes up, they sometimes increase it to $1.05, $1.10, or $1.15 depending on how high it went but they were QUICK to take it back down if gas even thought to go back down in price.

So... you've run some numbers!

I see local yocals delivering in brand new cars, and even full-size V8 pickups. They must just be bored, because they sure aren't doing it to make money. :rolleyes: